Review: Mix “Stand By Me” and “River’s Edge” With Super Heroes You Get Plutona
A super hero falls in the woods and the sound turns the lives of five kids upside down.
Report: One Marvel exec blocked making Black Widow toys
This past spring there was a a lot of hullabaloo over the lack of Black Widow toys from the Hasbro Avengers: Age of Ultron...
THE IMAGE EFFECT: Are Editors Outdated?
This is the first in a planned series of articles about the “Image Effect.” Over the past 20+ years Image Comics has grown from...
Micky Moran Visits the Stately Beat Manor Staff Pull for 9/2/15
Team Comics Beat, the world’s most important comic book website ever to grace the internet, sought out adventure and fun after a hard work...
New Hulk has stylish new shorts and a headband–but who is it?
I guess there's a nasa Hulk on the way, as shown in this new Marvel teaser, and he's got some on-trend athletic shorts but also a doorag or headband of some sort...not sure if that's in style or not. He also sports some kind of glove that would give away his identity.
Preview: Glenn Head’s Chicago
Cartoonist Glenn Head is a comics lifer, with a sensibility filtered through the undergrounds and decanted into the best of 90s alternatives. And how he's crafted a autobiographical comic called Chicago (Fantagraphics) that should be called "portrait of the artist as a young jerk" -- with Jerk meant in the most loving sense possible. It's quite a statement from a creator who hasn't gotten the attention he should in today's comics-loving wold. But Chicago, on sale today, will change that. And here's why.
Hastings teams with Valiant for “Craft of Comics” course
There are only a few nationwide book chains left but those that remain really like comics. For example, Hastings, the nationwide chain that sells...
Vanesa R. Del Rey and Aja join Robinson on Scarlet Witch
Marvel recently announced that writer James Robinson would be tackling an upcoming solo series starring the Scarlet Witch spinning out of her on-screen debut...
Weekly Shonen Jump and Kodansha join Comixology
Digital manga—more available than ever before. Both Weekly Shonen Jump and Kodansha have just joined Comixology and the Kindle store.
The digital Weekly Shonen...
Preview: Alex Robinson is back with Our Expanding Universe
Cartoonist Alex Robinson is a charter member of the pioneering :"indie comic graphic novel club" with Box Office Poison, an award-winning ensemble slice of...
Interview: Ben Hatke meditates on friendship in newest graphic novel, Little Robot
Renowned for his wonderful children's series, Zita the Space Girl and last year's Julia's House for Lost Creatures, Ben Hatke is one of the...
Feige escapes from Perlmutter’s rule as Marvel Studios restructures
Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige will no longer report to the notoriously difficult Isaac Perlmutter, but instead will report directly to Disney Studios head Alan Horn, a move that will give him much more freedom.














